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Tax Break Bill Pending
by Ann Hohenhaus
How to Write Your
Representatives
A bill currently in the Maryland Senate
will, if passed, allow state residents
deductions from their state income tax for
tuition and mandatory fees. The purpose of
the bill is to relieve some of the in­flationary
pressures put on students by
subtracting educational expenses from the
federal adjusted gross income. Sponsored
by Senator Robert E. Stroble (Baltimore
County), Senate Bill 558 would apply to
students attending community colleges,
universities vocational or technical in­stitutions
and four-year colleges such as
St. Mary’s. The Senate Budget and
Taxation Committee held a hearing on the
bill on March 4, 1978, but no vote was
taken. At present no floor vote is
scheduled.
St. M a ry 's Fre shmen SAT's
Rank High in State
The average Scholastic Aptitude Test
scores of freshmen at St. Mary’s College
rank first in Verbal and second in the Math
category among first-year students at all
Maryland public colleges and universities.
Verbal scores at St. Mary’s average 453
points, substantially higher than the
national mark of 429 and ahead of UM
College Park and UM-Baltimore County
by 3 and 13 points respectively. The
average Math score of 471 among St.
Mary’s freshmen compares with the
national average of 470 and ranks second
in the state.
A statistical profile of the class of ’81
prepared by the College’s Office of In­stitutional
Research also reveals that
more than half of the entering freshmen
graduated in the top two-fifths of their high
school classes. Further, the profile shows
a gain in the number of students who
applied to St. Mary’s on the strength of its
reputation for high academic standards.
According to figures compiled by the
Baltimore Sun, Maryland public colleges
rank as follows:
Announcements
Average SAT Scores
School Verbal Avg.
St. Mary’s ........................
UM-College Park ............. .................... 450
UM-Baltimore County. . . .................... 440
Towson...............................
Frostburg............................
Salisbury............................
UM-Eastern Shore............ .................... 309
Bowie..........................
Coppin................................
National............................
School Math Avg.
UM-CP..............................
St. Mary’s ........................
UM-BC..............................
Towson........................ ..
Salisbury..........................
Frostburg..........................
UM-ES..............................
Bowie................................
Coppin..............................
National............................
The Student Government Association
strongly recommends that students and
their parents write their State Legislators
to vote in favor of the Tax Credit Bill,
Senate Bill 558. Letters to your
representatives have maximum impact
when they concern pending legislation.
Here are some guidelines for writing an
effective letter:
Write on personal or business let­terhead
(if you have it), and sign your
name over your signature if you have
typed the letter.
. Put your return address on the letter.
Envelopes are thrown away.
. Identify your subject clearly, giving the
name of the legislation you are writing
about.
.State your reason for writing. Your own
personal experience is the best supporting
evidence. Tell how the issue would affect
you, your family, community, or
livelihood—of the effect you believe it will
have.
. Be as brief as possible.
.Use your own words.
. Ask your legislators to state their
positions on the issue in their replies.
. Be reasonable. Don't ask for the im­possible
or engage in threats.
. Time the arrival of your letter so it
reaches the Capitol before legislation is
acted upon in the committee or on the
floor.
. Be sure to thank your legislator if he or
she has done something you think is right
on a particular issue.
The address is:
The H o n .____________________________
James Office Building
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
D e a n o f Stu dents C a n d id a te s
to b e In te rv iew e d
The Search Committee for the Dean of
Students has invited several individuals to
campus for interviews for the position of
Dean of Students, The dates of their visit
and their current position is listed below.
Dr. Charles G. Fisher, March 20-21 —
Associate Dean for Student Affairs and
Assistant Professor of Counseling and
Personnel Services, State University of
New York at Albany, New York.
Dr. William B. Eisenhardt, March 21-22
— Dean of Students and Associate
Professor at Hudson College, Bangor,
Maine.
Dr. Raymond P. Heath, March 22-23 —
Dean of Students, LaSalle College,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on their
first evening on campus, all students are
invited to meet with the respective can­didate
in the Queen Anne Lounge.
Copies of their resumes are located in
the Housing Office, Somerset Hall, the
Student Activities Office, Charles Hall,
and the Library Reserve Desk.
(Cont. from Pg. 2)
G o l d s m i t h E l e c t e d
t o L i b r a r y B o a r d
Dr. Robert H. Goldsmith, professor of
chemistry at St. Mary’s College and
president of the county Board of Library
Trustees, was elected president of the
Executive Board of the Southern
Maryland Regional Library Association at
the Board’s February meeting. The
executive Board is composed of at least
two trustees from each of the three
southern counties of Maryland, and the
director of the Association, who serves as
secretary of the group. Dr. Goldsmith
succeeds Mrs. Parks of Calvert County
who has just retired from the Calvert
County Board of Library Trustees.
L a u g h t o n t o
P e r f o r m a t L i n c o l n
C e n t e r
John Laughton will play a concert with
the Apple Hill Chamber Players in Lincoln
Center in New York City at 8 p.m. on
Friday, March 24. Anyone who will be in
the area on that date and would like free
tickets to the performance .nay obtain
them from John. He will also play, live, on
WQXR on Thursday, March 24, at 10 a.m.
P r o v o s t C a n d i d a t e
E v a l u a t i o n F o r m s
The Provost Search Committee has
prepared a provost candidate evaluation
form for the purpose of getting in­formation
from members of the college
community concerning the suitability of
each candidate for the position of Provost
and Dean of the College. The Committee
hopes that each person who has had some
opportunity to judge a candidate will
complete and submit the form to it. A
separate evaluation form should be
prepared for each interviewed candidate
as soon following that candidate’s ap­pearance
as is possible.
The evaluation forms are now available
in the following offices: All division of­fices,
Business Office (Margaret Brent
Hall), The Student Activities Office
(Charles Hall).
Instructions as to where the completed
form is to be sent appear on it. All forms
will be examined by an evaluation sub­committee
consisting of Hampton Davey,
James Nickell and Joseph Miller. This
subcommittee will summarize the
evaluations on each candidate and submit
the summary to the full Provost Search
Committee. The completed evaluation
forms will subsequently be destroyed.
C o l l e g e O f f e r s
O t h e r - R a c e G r a n t s
St. Mary’s College of Maryland offers
financial assistance to qualified members
of racial minorities in the form of state-funded
Other-Race Grants. U.S. citizens,
permanent residents, and resident aliens,
who are black, American Indian,
Hispanic, or Oriental, and who are unable
to attend college because of limited
financial resources, may apply for Other-
Race Grant funds through the St. Mary’s
College Financial Aid Office.
Grants are awarded on the basis of need
to full-time students, and to students
registered for 6 to 11 hours, as funds are
available. The Financial Aid Office
determines an individual’s need by means
of a Financial Aid Form, taking into ac­count
such factors as income, savings,
investments, debts, medical bills, siblings
in college, and so on. The deadline for
applications for the 1978-79 academic year
is April 1. Information and application
forms are available from the Financial
Aid Office; inquiries should be directed to
George Bachman, Director of Financial
Aid, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 994-
1600, ext. 284.
(Cont. from Pg. 1)
Residence Life, that space was available
in the dorm studies for those who had no
other place to stay for the rest of the night.
Other students stayed with friends or went
home. Students residing on the first and
second floors were allowed back in their
rooms Monday.
Last week a professional cleaning
companywas scheduled to begin repairing
the damage done by the smoke. Steinway
said they expect the left and right wings of
PG to be able to be reoccupied once they
have been cleaned, but it has not yet been
determined whether the rooms in the
center of the hall will be habitable by the
end of the semester.
At present the resident students from the
center hall are staying either in space
provided by the conversion of the dor­mitory
studies into living areas, or with
friends. “We are willing to accomodate
students wherever they want to stay,”
said Steinway. She added that they are
prepared to use the third floor studies in
PG, the second and third left studies in
Dorchester and second left and right
studies in Caroline to house the students.
The firefighters determined that the
steel deck roofing in the building contained
the fire and fire preventative methods in
the building aided in preventing the blaze
from getting into the attic and the roof,
which would have caused extensive
structural damage.
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Tax Break Bill Pending
by Ann Hohenhaus
How to Write Your
Representatives
A bill currently in the Maryland Senate
will, if passed, allow state residents
deductions from their state income tax for
tuition and mandatory fees. The purpose of
the bill is to relieve some of the in­flationary
pressures put on students by
subtracting educational expenses from the
federal adjusted gross income. Sponsored
by Senator Robert E. Stroble (Baltimore
County), Senate Bill 558 would apply to
students attending community colleges,
universities vocational or technical in­stitutions
and four-year colleges such as
St. Mary’s. The Senate Budget and
Taxation Committee held a hearing on the
bill on March 4, 1978, but no vote was
taken. At present no floor vote is
scheduled.
St. M a ry 's Fre shmen SAT's
Rank High in State
The average Scholastic Aptitude Test
scores of freshmen at St. Mary’s College
rank first in Verbal and second in the Math
category among first-year students at all
Maryland public colleges and universities.
Verbal scores at St. Mary’s average 453
points, substantially higher than the
national mark of 429 and ahead of UM
College Park and UM-Baltimore County
by 3 and 13 points respectively. The
average Math score of 471 among St.
Mary’s freshmen compares with the
national average of 470 and ranks second
in the state.
A statistical profile of the class of ’81
prepared by the College’s Office of In­stitutional
Research also reveals that
more than half of the entering freshmen
graduated in the top two-fifths of their high
school classes. Further, the profile shows
a gain in the number of students who
applied to St. Mary’s on the strength of its
reputation for high academic standards.
According to figures compiled by the
Baltimore Sun, Maryland public colleges
rank as follows:
Announcements
Average SAT Scores
School Verbal Avg.
St. Mary’s ........................
UM-College Park ............. .................... 450
UM-Baltimore County. . . .................... 440
Towson...............................
Frostburg............................
Salisbury............................
UM-Eastern Shore............ .................... 309
Bowie..........................
Coppin................................
National............................
School Math Avg.
UM-CP..............................
St. Mary’s ........................
UM-BC..............................
Towson........................ ..
Salisbury..........................
Frostburg..........................
UM-ES..............................
Bowie................................
Coppin..............................
National............................
The Student Government Association
strongly recommends that students and
their parents write their State Legislators
to vote in favor of the Tax Credit Bill,
Senate Bill 558. Letters to your
representatives have maximum impact
when they concern pending legislation.
Here are some guidelines for writing an
effective letter:
Write on personal or business let­terhead
(if you have it), and sign your
name over your signature if you have
typed the letter.
. Put your return address on the letter.
Envelopes are thrown away.
. Identify your subject clearly, giving the
name of the legislation you are writing
about.
.State your reason for writing. Your own
personal experience is the best supporting
evidence. Tell how the issue would affect
you, your family, community, or
livelihood—of the effect you believe it will
have.
. Be as brief as possible.
.Use your own words.
. Ask your legislators to state their
positions on the issue in their replies.
. Be reasonable. Don't ask for the im­possible
or engage in threats.
. Time the arrival of your letter so it
reaches the Capitol before legislation is
acted upon in the committee or on the
floor.
. Be sure to thank your legislator if he or
she has done something you think is right
on a particular issue.
The address is:
The H o n .____________________________
James Office Building
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
D e a n o f Stu dents C a n d id a te s
to b e In te rv iew e d
The Search Committee for the Dean of
Students has invited several individuals to
campus for interviews for the position of
Dean of Students, The dates of their visit
and their current position is listed below.
Dr. Charles G. Fisher, March 20-21 —
Associate Dean for Student Affairs and
Assistant Professor of Counseling and
Personnel Services, State University of
New York at Albany, New York.
Dr. William B. Eisenhardt, March 21-22
— Dean of Students and Associate
Professor at Hudson College, Bangor,
Maine.
Dr. Raymond P. Heath, March 22-23 —
Dean of Students, LaSalle College,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on their
first evening on campus, all students are
invited to meet with the respective can­didate
in the Queen Anne Lounge.
Copies of their resumes are located in
the Housing Office, Somerset Hall, the
Student Activities Office, Charles Hall,
and the Library Reserve Desk.
(Cont. from Pg. 2)
G o l d s m i t h E l e c t e d
t o L i b r a r y B o a r d
Dr. Robert H. Goldsmith, professor of
chemistry at St. Mary’s College and
president of the county Board of Library
Trustees, was elected president of the
Executive Board of the Southern
Maryland Regional Library Association at
the Board’s February meeting. The
executive Board is composed of at least
two trustees from each of the three
southern counties of Maryland, and the
director of the Association, who serves as
secretary of the group. Dr. Goldsmith
succeeds Mrs. Parks of Calvert County
who has just retired from the Calvert
County Board of Library Trustees.
L a u g h t o n t o
P e r f o r m a t L i n c o l n
C e n t e r
John Laughton will play a concert with
the Apple Hill Chamber Players in Lincoln
Center in New York City at 8 p.m. on
Friday, March 24. Anyone who will be in
the area on that date and would like free
tickets to the performance .nay obtain
them from John. He will also play, live, on
WQXR on Thursday, March 24, at 10 a.m.
P r o v o s t C a n d i d a t e
E v a l u a t i o n F o r m s
The Provost Search Committee has
prepared a provost candidate evaluation
form for the purpose of getting in­formation
from members of the college
community concerning the suitability of
each candidate for the position of Provost
and Dean of the College. The Committee
hopes that each person who has had some
opportunity to judge a candidate will
complete and submit the form to it. A
separate evaluation form should be
prepared for each interviewed candidate
as soon following that candidate’s ap­pearance
as is possible.
The evaluation forms are now available
in the following offices: All division of­fices,
Business Office (Margaret Brent
Hall), The Student Activities Office
(Charles Hall).
Instructions as to where the completed
form is to be sent appear on it. All forms
will be examined by an evaluation sub­committee
consisting of Hampton Davey,
James Nickell and Joseph Miller. This
subcommittee will summarize the
evaluations on each candidate and submit
the summary to the full Provost Search
Committee. The completed evaluation
forms will subsequently be destroyed.
C o l l e g e O f f e r s
O t h e r - R a c e G r a n t s
St. Mary’s College of Maryland offers
financial assistance to qualified members
of racial minorities in the form of state-funded
Other-Race Grants. U.S. citizens,
permanent residents, and resident aliens,
who are black, American Indian,
Hispanic, or Oriental, and who are unable
to attend college because of limited
financial resources, may apply for Other-
Race Grant funds through the St. Mary’s
College Financial Aid Office.
Grants are awarded on the basis of need
to full-time students, and to students
registered for 6 to 11 hours, as funds are
available. The Financial Aid Office
determines an individual’s need by means
of a Financial Aid Form, taking into ac­count
such factors as income, savings,
investments, debts, medical bills, siblings
in college, and so on. The deadline for
applications for the 1978-79 academic year
is April 1. Information and application
forms are available from the Financial
Aid Office; inquiries should be directed to
George Bachman, Director of Financial
Aid, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 994-
1600, ext. 284.
(Cont. from Pg. 1)
Residence Life, that space was available
in the dorm studies for those who had no
other place to stay for the rest of the night.
Other students stayed with friends or went
home. Students residing on the first and
second floors were allowed back in their
rooms Monday.
Last week a professional cleaning
companywas scheduled to begin repairing
the damage done by the smoke. Steinway
said they expect the left and right wings of
PG to be able to be reoccupied once they
have been cleaned, but it has not yet been
determined whether the rooms in the
center of the hall will be habitable by the
end of the semester.
At present the resident students from the
center hall are staying either in space
provided by the conversion of the dor­mitory
studies into living areas, or with
friends. “We are willing to accomodate
students wherever they want to stay,”
said Steinway. She added that they are
prepared to use the third floor studies in
PG, the second and third left studies in
Dorchester and second left and right
studies in Caroline to house the students.
The firefighters determined that the
steel deck roofing in the building contained
the fire and fire preventative methods in
the building aided in preventing the blaze
from getting into the attic and the roof,
which would have caused extensive
structural damage.
Pulliam's Grocery
M A T T A P A N Y & RT. 2 3 5
B E E R — W I N E — W H I S K E Y
Special this week 0 pen 8 to 10
Budweiser 7 days a week
7 5 * Q t s . 8 6 2 - 2 5 1 2